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Kathleen Parker

Hillary and the ghosts of Benghazi

As chief executive, Obama may have felt he delegated appropriately. Let the military handle it. But he is also the commander in chief. When our ambassador is being attacked, our country is being attacked. Should he have done more? Might he have made a call to Stevens or someone else on the ground? Obama didn’t hesitate to call Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke two days after she was attacked on-air by radio host Rush Limbaugh. As Fluke reported, the president “wanted to make sure that I was okay.”

Two days after would have been too late for Stevens, of course, but one is a real-war theater and the other is merely political. To each his own arena.

To Clinton’s query — conceding the unfair advantage of Monday-morning quarterbacking — it is just and necessary to fill in the holes left gaping in Benghazi. Ultimately, the real truth may be, as one current ambassador put it to me, “Bad things happen in bad places.”

Does it make any difference how or why four Americans were murdered in Libya? My guess is, Ambassador Stevens would say that it does.

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Ted Kennedy was able to be a lifelong elected democrat after killing a girl; Robert Byrd was able to be a lifelong elected democrat as a KKK leader; I don’t see any democrat having a problem with Shrillary.

We know exactly what happened. Clinton and Obama failed to take steps to protect their staff even after the Red Cross was attacked and England withdrew its Ambassador after he was attacked. They then ignored calls for additional protection and on the night of the attack they were AWOL. Then the lying began.